Whole-Home Rewiring in Wesley Chapel, FL
Sized to the Wiring That Has to Go|Licensed & Insured, EC13011268
A rewire can stop well short of every wall. In a Wesley Chapel house, we draw the job around the wiring that has to come out and leave every other circuit as it is, so the scope follows the cable itself.
Photos of the affected rooms help us plan.
Call (352) 251-2795, Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., or send a request online. Calls after hours are returned the next business day.
At a glance
The Age of Wesley Chapel Homes and the Scope of a Rewire
Half the homes in Wesley Chapel date from 2006 or later, the median build year in census estimates. Copper cable in a home that young has had little time to age, so a rewire there tends to be sized to the part that was damaged or changed.
Owner-occupied homes from before 1980 number about 660 in the same estimates, a small share of the town. If one of them still has its first branch wiring, that cable has been in the walls for more than four decades, and a whole-house plan is a reasonable thing to raise at the estimate.
Turning a garage into a bedroom counts as an addition in Pasco, whose additions package covers converting non-habitable space into habitable space. The rewiring for that room then goes forward alongside the county's review of the conversion.
How it runs
Setting the Edges of a Rewiring Job
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Follow each circuit to its last outlet
The edge of the job runs along circuits, not walls. A circuit serving a bedroom may also run the hall light or an outlet on the far side of the wall, so each circuit in question is followed from its breaker to its last device before the plan is drawn.
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A permit, even for one room
In Pasco, replacing the wiring in even one room needs a permit, and wiring a storm left wet is no exception. One room or every room, the work goes ahead under that permit and each inspection it calls for. When a rewire reaches enough of the house that the contract passes a set value, the owner has paperwork of their own as well: a notarized Notice of Commencement. The owner signs it personally, and the owner or an authorized agent then records it with the clerk and posts a copy at the house before the first inspection. An owner financing the work should talk with the lender or an attorney before it is recorded.
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Power back where the checks allow
If water was the reason for the work, the circuits left in place are checked before power is restored to them.
What we cover
How Much of the House the Rewiring Reaches
Rewiring one room that water or fire reached
When water or fire reaches a room's outlets, switches, boxes, or the cable between them, those parts are replaced, not dried or cleaned. The work goes hand in hand with the drywall: where damaged drywall comes off the lower part of a wall, the electrical behind it is replaced while the studs are open, and new cable can run through the bare framing with no fishing.
Where flood damage in Pasco goes through the county's Flood Development Review, the owner can hire a licensed contractor for the repairs once that review is approved. Photos of the damage, a floor plan, and a scope of work listing what was damaged and what needs repair all go to that review, and the circuits a one-room rewire reaches belong in the scope.
Rewiring a converted garage or a new wing
A garage that turns into a bedroom, a study, or a family room was wired as a garage: a ceiling outlet for the door opener, a few wall outlets for tools and a freezer, and a light or two. As living space, the room needs outlets spaced along its walls the way any den has them, so the old garage circuits can be replaced as part of the conversion. If the new space adjoins older rooms, their circuits can join the same plan while the work is under way.
A whole-house rewire, panel to last outlet
When age is the reason, the scope is the whole house. A home still running on the branch wiring it was built with can have every circuit replaced under one plan, with new boxes and devices at each point it serves. If that wiring is aluminum, a connection-by-connection repair is a separate option to weigh first.
Pricing
Rewiring Prices and the Circuits in the Plan
How many circuits the plan includes, and the path new cable follows to each of them, set the price. After water or fire, the full plan can't be priced until the damage is open to view.
Custom homes and large or multi-phase projects are estimated as soon as we can, or on the timeline your project sets.
Repair and troubleshooting visits are billed by the hour from arrival: $100 residential, $150 commercial, one-hour minimum, then half-hour increments, plus materials. No trip charge and no service fee. No hidden fees: the 3.5% surcharge on card and ACH payments is listed in our terms.
We don't do upfront pricing. No job has a standard price with us: each one is tailored to the property and the work you've asked for, and priced once we've seen it.
We offer free estimates on installs, upgrades, and replacements in our service area. Estimates aren't free when the job needs troubleshooting or testing to price, falls after hours or outside our service area, needs several meetings to gather information, or is new construction or a custom remodel with multi-party walk-throughs. For most jobs, estimates arrive by email by the end of the next business day, and quotes are good for 30 days.
Our warranty
05If something we installed fails because of our workmanship within 30 days of completion, we waive the hourly labor to put it right. Materials Kennedy Electric purchases for your job carry the manufacturer's one-year warranty. To replace defective materials we supplied, or materials damaged by storm, flood, fire, or other acts of God, we charge a reduced warranty labor rate of $50 an hour residential and $75 an hour commercial. The warranty does not cover materials not purchased by Kennedy Electric, work performed by the customer, or materials the customer purchased or damaged. Our warranty terms are printed on the estimate, the invoice, and the receipt, and the product boxes stay with you so you can register each product with its manufacturer.
Water came into our Wesley Chapel house but stayed below the outlets. Could the wiring still need replacing?
Our Wesley Chapel home has a bonus room over the garage. How does new cable reach it in a rewire?
We close on an older house in Wesley Chapel soon. Is it easier to rewire before we move in?
We rent out a house in Wesley Chapel, and the tenant has asked about rewiring. Whose decision is it?
How long does a rewire take in a Wesley Chapel house?
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Tell us which rooms you'd like rewired, what prompted the work, and the year the house was built. Our office will reach you during business hours.